Hope you didn't step out completely, because you'll be lucky to trigger any buy orders on 9k, much less 8k. Unless you're willing to wait a few months. But that's just my speculation, no more scientific than yours;)

Tether is the only way to do this, I guess, and I still haven't overcome initial misgivings about Tether to start storing anything in that "crypto". I'm wondering why BTC hasn't swung either way yet, I'm sure US markets are just arriving on the new day now.